Social Deck Advanced Internet Application Development Georgia Institute

Social Deck Advanced Internet Application Development Georgia Institute of Technology Aamir Poonawalla Hrishikesh Mantri Kaustubh Sheth Swaroop Butala

Overview �Motivation �Proposed Work �Why Java. FX? �Architecture �Features �Extensible Framework �Screenshots �Challenges �Future Work

Motivation �Ever expanding ‘Internet’ �Always stay connected Social Networks News, Weather, Current events Photo Sharing Calendar, Email and much more… �One common interface �Desktop Gadget �Need for a Development Framework

Proposed work �One touch Desktop Gadget �Social Networks �Email & Calendar �News, Weather and Current events �Photo Manager �Activity Notification Component �Customizable application �Extensible Framework

Java. FX? �Java. FX is a Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-side Applications �High-quality UI-intensive apps �Why not Swing? More fluent and object oriented It is a nice complement and not a substitution Easier to embellish Swing apps with Java. FX �Desktop Application, Widget and Web Application

Architecture + TRACKER SOCIAL DECK

Features �Facebook Notifications Friends’ Status Updates Friends’ Shared Links �Twitter Fetch Latest tweets Tweet �Photo Manager Picasa

Features (contd) �Daily Appointments Google Calendar Zimbra Calendar �Mail Zimbra Unread Mail �Yahoo! News �Yahoo! Weather �Restaurant Finder - Yelp

Screenshots Social Deck

Facebook Notifications Friends’ Status Updates Friends’ Shared Links

Twitter Tweets from Followees Ability to Tweet

Weather �Yahoo! Weather Current Forecast

News �Yahoo! News Top Stories Link – Full News

Photo Manager �Picasa Browser Uploader

Zimbra Inbox Unread Mails Link – Zimbra Inbox

Restaurant Yelp Contact Details Ratings Search by Zip Code

Calendar Zimbra Google

Challenges �Java. FX and Idiosyncrasies No Basic Components No Hyper Links No Multi Line �PUSH Service Quartz, Java. FX �Maintaing MVC Architecture Integrating Java, Java. FX �Building a framework

Future Work �Session Management �Security �Multi-user support �Customizable gadget �Mobile application �Cache �Alarm System

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